Teachers in Rhode Island currently maintain their certification by showing evidence of continuous professional development. Creating a personal PD plan is a unit-wide assignment in the School of Education for all student teachers. The steps below are designed to guide you through this process so that we can complete it efficiently.
Complete the form based on one of the lessons you taught last week. Be sure to write down specific evidence from either your lesson plan or your memory of your enactment for each assessment you give.
Use a highlighter to identify areas of your teaching/lesson that were either below standard or that you feel needs improvement
Synthesize your review by completing the following table as best your can:
What is the need?
How will improvement help your students?
How will improvement help your school?
RIBT Standard/Element Addressed?
1.
I need to improve my classroom management. When students know what is expected of them, they will be consistent in their actions. Consequences of actions will be known and followed through on. The less students misbehave, the more teaching and learning can be accomplished.
Improving my classroom management skills will help create a better learning environment for all of my students. Being consistent with my expectations and consequences of not meeting expectations will make the classroom safer, and a more effective place for acquiring knowledge.
2.
I need to improve my time management when providing one-on-one assistance. There are many low-level students in my class and they need a lot of specialized attention throughout instruction. If I spend more time on grouping students by varied ability, then the low-level students will have more chances to receive help. The low-level students tend to stay quite and not vocalize their difficulties. In group settings, they are more apt to learn from a classmate and ask the questions they may not ask while in the full-class discussion.
If I better manage my time in dealing with low-level students, it will benefit more students and allow them opportunities to succeed. Grouping by ability will create a better learning environment for all students.
3.
4.
Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
measurable/observable
should lead to improvement of teaching, student achievement, and/or improvement of learning environment.
should describe new knowledge or skills that you will acquire and how that knowledge/skill will affect the school/district setting.
linked to applicable Rhode Island Beginning Teacher Standards and elements, e.g. RIBTS 2.4.
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal
My professional development goal is to increase my knowledge in the area of classroom management in order to improve my teaching and learning environment. To accomplish this goal, I will need to take a professional development course on classroom management or differentiated learning styles. A course on classroom management will provide me with tools for ways of dealing with misbehavior in the classroom. A course on differentiated learning styles will provide me with ideas for incorporating different methods of instruction to benefit those students who, for example, aren't audio learners, and tend to act out during those portions of instruction. Another way I can reach this goal is by observing other teachers throughout the building. I will see various ways of dealing with students, and with those that are effective, I will add to my techniques for managing my classroom. Increasing my knowledge of behavioral management techniques will prevent discipline problems and develop a safe and effective learning environment. Mutual respect between teacher and students is an important part of an effective learning environment. Enabling the students to take part in determining the rules and consequences of not following rules, puts responsibility in their hands. It also shows them that the teacher respects their ideas and wants the classroom to be a friendly environment. In turn, the students should respect the teacher's adherence to consequences of breaking rules. If the expectations are not met, the students are well aware of the consequences, because they have helped determine these. They know that the rules are meant to keep the classroom a safe environment that does not tolerate misbehavior. If the teacher does not set forth expectations, then the students have many reasons to act out and behave in any way they choose. By managing the classroom in a way that conveys mutual respect, the students will not feel that misbehavior is accepted, nor will they feel that consequences of misbehavior are unfairly determined.
Now that you have a PD goal, think about what type of learning opportunities you will participate in to address your needs. Use these links to investigate learning options:
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
EDC 484 Personal PD Plan
Teachers in Rhode Island currently maintain their certification by showing evidence of continuous professional development. Creating a personal PD plan is a unit-wide assignment in the School of Education for all student teachers. The steps below are designed to guide you through this process so that we can complete it efficiently.Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal
My professional development goal is to increase my knowledge in the area of classroom management in order to improve my teaching and learning environment. To accomplish this goal, I will need to take a professional development course on classroom management or differentiated learning styles. A course on classroom management will provide me with tools for ways of dealing with misbehavior in the classroom. A course on differentiated learning styles will provide me with ideas for incorporating different methods of instruction to benefit those students who, for example, aren't audio learners, and tend to act out during those portions of instruction. Another way I can reach this goal is by observing other teachers throughout the building. I will see various ways of dealing with students, and with those that are effective, I will add to my techniques for managing my classroom.
Increasing my knowledge of behavioral management techniques will prevent discipline problems and develop a safe and effective learning environment. Mutual respect between teacher and students is an important part of an effective learning environment. Enabling the students to take part in determining the rules and consequences of not following rules, puts responsibility in their hands. It also shows them that the teacher respects their ideas and wants the classroom to be a friendly environment. In turn, the students should respect the teacher's adherence to consequences of breaking rules. If the expectations are not met, the students are well aware of the consequences, because they have helped determine these. They know that the rules are meant to keep the classroom a safe environment that does not tolerate misbehavior. If the teacher does not set forth expectations, then the students have many reasons to act out and behave in any way they choose. By managing the classroom in a way that conveys mutual respect, the students will not feel that misbehavior is accepted, nor will they feel that consequences of misbehavior are unfairly determined.
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan